I think that the licence status notice on Wikipedia's Atomium photograph page
pretty much explains it all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Atomium_20-08-07.jpg
> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:17:55 +0100
> From: stone...@stoneynet.nl
> To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Willfully violating Google Terms of Use
>
> Op 12-3-2012 15:26, Martin Spott schreef:
> > That's an interesting case and we probably had a similar one recently
> > in Germany. Did they try to sue anyone who *published* these
> > photographs (on their private Picasa/Flickr/Panoramio or other albums)
> > or just those who *sold* photographs ? Cheers, Martin.
>
> They actually tried to sue anyone who published photographs of the
> Atomium, either on their personal blog or on album accounts. Probably
> through some kind of automated crawler script which was programmed to
> send angry letters to anyone who posted a similar looking photograph.
>
> Needless to say, most of it is pure FUD, but unfortunately, civilians
> don't have the legal means to defend themselves against the enormous
> amounts of leverage big copyright holders can throw at it.
>
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